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You will find selected essays, reviews, and editorials on this page. If you have questions, please reach out to me via the contact form.


 

AUTHOR PHOTOS

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Rosemary Claire Smith
Rosemary Claire Smith
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BIOGRAPHIES

50-WORD BIO

Rosemary Claire Smith won the 2023 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. She is a four-time AnLab Award nominated writer, a former archaeologist, and dinosaur fan. Her interactive adventure game, T-Rex Time Machine, is available from Choice of Games. Her science fiction, essays, and book reviews appear in Analog Magazine, Amazing Stories, Fantastic StoriesThe Reinvented Detective, The Reinvented Heart, and elsewhere.


50-WORD BIO

Rosemary Claire Smith won the 2023 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. She is a four-time AnLab Award nominated writer, a former archaeologist, and dinosaur fan. Her interactive adventure game, T-Rex Time Machine, is available from Choice of Games. Her science fiction, essays, and book reviews appear in Analog Magazine, Amazing Stories, Fantastic StoriesThe Reinvented Detective, The Reinvented Heart, and elsewhere.


100 WORD BIO

Rosemary Claire Smith writes about time travel, space exploration, alternate history, mythological beings, and dinosaurs past and future. Her story “Apollo in Retrograde” won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. She’s a four-time finalist for Analog Magazine's readers award. Look for her book reviews in Analog Magazine. As a former archaeologist, Rosemary excavated ancient sites in the U.S. She never gave up her dream of jumping back in time to Bronze Age societies or farther to the heyday of the dinosaurs. She invites you along by playing her interactive adventure game, T-Rex Time Machine. Follow her: www.rcwordsmith.com and @RCWordsmith.


150-WORD BIO

Rosemary Claire Smith is the 2023 winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for “Apollo in Retrograde.” She’s been a finalist for Analog Magazine’s readers’ award for “Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs,” “The Next Frontier,” and “Apollo in Retrograde.” Her book review columns appear in every other issue of Analog Magazine. Her alternate histories, future romances, time-travel tales, reworked mythologies, horror stories, and essays have snuck onto the pages of Amazing StoriesFantastic Stories, The Reinvented Heart, The Reinvented Detective, and other periodicals and anthologies. Rosemary’s stories draw upon her fascination with dinosaurs, her experiences as a field archaeologist excavating prehistoric sites around the United States and visiting sites in other countries. Her RPG, T-Rex Time Machine is available from Choice of Games. Follow her on social media @RCWordsmith and RCWordsmith.com to find out what she’s writing now, and her thoughts about recent dinosaur discoveries.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Sidewise Award for Alternate History

"Apollo in Retrograde" won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, short form. It appeared in the November/December 2023 issue of Analog Magazine.

Analog Magazine's Readers' Award

The following stories were finalists for Analog Magazine's AnLab/Readers' Choice award:

  • "Apollo in Retrograde" (November/December 2023): second place novelette
  • "The Next Frontier" (July/August 2012): fourth place novelette
  • "Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs" (July/August 2016) third place novelette

 

The following fact article was a finalist for Analog Magazine's AnLab/Readers' Choice award:

  • "The Science Behind 'Apollo in Retrograde'" (January/February 2024)

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Eating the Fantastic

Scott Edelman featured me on episode 32 (3/21/2017) of his Eating the Fantastic podcast.